By Graham D. Rowles
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Powell Lawton in housing research). Nonetheless, I suggest that room must be left for the concept of preference as a determinant of choice of activity. The contribution of preference can be understood only when other factors such as external constraints, personal experience, response styles, and other processes that condition the predictive value of overtly expressed preferences have been jointly considered MODELS OF ACTIVITY AND WELL-BEING Two models by which the antecedents of activity might be predicted have been suggested.
In 1 9 7 4 Leland called our relationship a "facultative symbiosis''—a zoological term for a romance between two independent organisms who allowed themselves to enjoy a measure of interdependence. Some relationships, like good marriages and good gardens, thrive on constant contact. Ours did. When the house I was renting went up for sale and Leland advised against my purchasing it, neither of us guessed how vulnerable our symbiosis would prove. Less than a year after our love story reached publication, I was indeed packing the children and the dog into the car and heading for a new destination, though it was not as distant as Leland had feared: It was only a mile up the hill to a newly purchased home.
Who Pays? Who Benefits? One of the most basic questions to be applied to the present system is who are the real beneficiaries of Medicare, Medicaid, Title XX, the Older Americans Act, and other, minor pieces of social legislation affecting older persons? Is it older persons or middle-class and middle-aged service providers who really benefit from these programs? This question has been raised by Estes and others, and needs to be addressed. Is it really that the middle-aged get incomes and the old get symbols under present policy?